| Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Cline, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403968144 ISBN-13: 9781403968142 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2008 Annotation: Focusing on one Massachusetts community, David Cline uses the personal stories of those who sought abortions and of birth control and the health care professionals, clergy members, and feminist activists who helped them to reexamine the contentious history of reproductive rights in America in the last thirty years. His work brings together interviews with a variety of individuals--college chaplain moved to activism after one of his students died from a botched backalley abortion and another hung herself because of an unwanted pregnancy; members of women's collectives who ferried women to abortion clinics across state lines in a kind of modern Underground Railroad; a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her bathtub; and the women themselves who risked their lives. This fascinating collection is a much-needed contribution to recent scholarship on the reproductive rights movement as well as being an important new work of community oral history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Abortion & Birth Control - History | Social History - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 363.960 |
| LCCN: 2005047593 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.38" W x 9.3" (0.99 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the United States. Illegal abortion affected millions of women and their families, yet their stories remain hidden. In Creating Choice, citizens of one community in Western Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley break that silence. |